relation: http://eprints.imtlucca.it/3100/
title: Sensing Glove for Brain Studies: Design and Assessment of Its Compatibility for fMRI With a Robust Test
creator: Vanello, Nicola
creator: Hartwig, Valentina
creator: Tesconi, Mario
creator: Ricciardi, Emiliano
creator: Tognetti, Alessandro
creator: Zupone, Giuseppe
creator: Gassert, Roger
creator: Chapuis, Dominique
creator: Sgambelluri, Nicola
creator: Scilingo, Enzo Pasquale
creator: Giovannetti, Giulio
creator: Positano, Vincenzo
creator: Santarelli, Maria Filomena
creator: Bicchi, Antonio
creator: Pietrini, Pietro
creator: De Rossi, Danilo
creator: Landini, Luigi
subject: RC0321 Neuroscience. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatry
subject: T Technology (General)
description: In this paper, we describe a biomimetic-fabric-based sensing glove that can be used to monitor hand posture and gesture. Our device is made of a distributed sensor network of piezoresistive conductive elastomers integrated into an elastic fabric. This solution does not affect natural movement and hand gestures, and can be worn for a long time with no discomfort. The glove could be fruitfully employed in behavioral and functional studies with functional MRI (fMRI) during specific tactile or motor tasks. To assess MR compatibility of the system, a statistical test on phantoms is introduced. This test can also be used for testing the compatibility of mechatronic devices designed to produce different stimuli inside the MR environment. We propose a statistical test to evaluate changes in SNR and time-domain standard deviations between image sequences acquired under different experimental conditions. fMRI experiments on subjects wearing the glove are reported. The reproducibility of fMRI results obtained with and without the glove was estimated. A good similarity between the activated regions was found in the two conditions.
publisher: IEEE
date: 2008-06
type: Article
type: PeerReviewed
identifier:   Vanello, Nicola and Hartwig, Valentina and Tesconi, Mario and Ricciardi, Emiliano and Tognetti, Alessandro and Zupone, Giuseppe and Gassert, Roger and Chapuis, Dominique and Sgambelluri, Nicola and Scilingo, Enzo Pasquale and Giovannetti, Giulio and Positano, Vincenzo and Santarelli, Maria Filomena and Bicchi, Antonio and Pietrini, Pietro and De Rossi, Danilo and Landini, Luigi  Sensing Glove for Brain Studies: Design and Assessment of Its Compatibility for fMRI With a Robust Test.  IEEE/Asme Transactions on Mechatronics, 13 (3).  pp. 345-354.  ISSN 1083-4435      (2008)  
relation: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=4542814
relation: 10.1109/TMECH.2008.924115